core.form-ula

An amazing collection of historical German camera gear on display @ Deutshes Technikmuseum Berlin. The exhibit is full of retro gadgets, including bisected lenses and cameras, the insides of which show the precision of a CAD drawing. via WIRED mag read more

Brooklyn - McCarren Park Natatorium Integration

The project proceeded from a developmental exercise that begin to establish form. The development of the long span configuration would then go through a series of alterations and refinements that would enable it to critically approach integration into the site and into the neighborhood at large. read more

A performing arts library requires different sources of knowledge, such as, books, media, computers, and live visual performances. The objective of this project is to house the vast variety of these resources in one building while allowing each section to flourish without disrupting one another. read more

Brooklyn - McCarren Park Aquatic Center

A three-bayed tension system was finalized using a double layered flexible skin system pulled between tension cables underneath and rigid compression arches above. Program functions are split between two main levels and grouped by visual but non-obstructive divisions where each shell bay meets another. read more

Adapical Prosocline Suture_A joint between the internal and peripheral axis lines that redefine an area that is able transforms periodically according to its change in pressures.

Manipulating the roofs curvature helps define two programmatic spaces that lay between the central core and the peripheral axis.

The roof is being transformed in its section in order to accommodate for the different programmatic functions. As the module responds to the curvature it opens or closes up. This is manipulated to achieve the desired condition. read more

The skin structure is formed by arched bracing and plates that dance above and below the datum of the large arches. It follows down to the ground where areas of extended programmatic lines taken from the original bivalve shell have been pulled up to create layering where the programs are housed. This is used to help take the load of the skin structure above. read more

Longitudinal section describing schematic McCarren Park Aquatic Center.

The structural components of the long span act as roof and as ground. Fanning patterns of the roof components rotate radially from control points in plan, and dip/valley in section to form a subtle landscape. They also acknowledge with a certain level of sensitivity the existing buildings on site and preliminarily programmed routes of public circulation across the site.

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Adapical Prosocline Suture_A joint between the internal and peripheral axis lines that redefine an area that is able transforms periodically according to its change in pressures.

Program is located between the internal core and the peripheral line axis of the plan_template . The long span module aggregations then are arrayed radially from the core centroid. The individual modules are aggregated to accommodate the specific program that lays underneath, as the modules collide with the surface groundscape they create this suture that it’s utilized for different programmatic purposes. read more

 Advertising gives visual cue to a passer-by, making them a consumer of visual information. What if we had the ability to create the same affect but in a more educational, informative way physically? By funneling people into the public domain of a building you are not forcing them to enter. You are simply suggesting it by ingulfing them with a system that interjects itself into the public realm of the sidewalk. I propose my library to engulf the sidewalk, providing shelter and easy access to its facilities from someone walking down Lafayette.

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The ideas that were taken from the analysis of our natural shell the Bivalve led to a rendered model study, through that model I projected the section, radial lines and geometric surfaces a paper template was created. By folding and manipulating that paper template the concepts of a Self-Intersecting Point, Radial Growth and Temporal Layering were achieved. read more